Recensori in anteprimaLiane Moriarty

Enter to win one of 25 advance reading copies of Liane Moriarty's new book THE HUSBAND'S SECRET! From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other. Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything—forever. Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives. But when Cecilia opens up a Pandora’s box, their lives will intersect in ways none of them could foresee. Cecilia is the woman who seems to have it all: a successful career, a gorgeous husband, and three wonderful daughters. One day she finds an old tattered letter in the attic that’s addressed to her, to be opened only in the event of her husband’s death. But he’s still very much alive. When Cecilia casually mentions it to him on the phone, he laughs it off, telling her to put the letter away. Yet when he flies home early from an overseas business trip, and then frantically searches for the letter, Cecilia realizes there’s something important in it, something she needs to know. Yet even Pandora herself could not prepare Cecilia for what the letter reveals.

From the author of critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a wonderfully fun, insightful novel about the crazy things we do for love. Ellen O’Farrell is a bit unusual. She’s a hypnotherapist. She’s never met her father. And she can’t seem to keep a relationship going (okay, that’s more normal that we want to admit). When Ellen meets Patrick, she’s hopeful nevertheless. But when he says he needs to tell her something, she fears the worst. However, when Patrick reveals that his ex-girlfriend is stalking him, Ellen thinks, Is that all? Actually, that’s kind of neat. She’s more intrigued than frightened. What makes a supposedly smart, professional woman behave this way? She’d love to meet her. What she doesn’t know is that she already has.

Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, and her life is soft, slow and sweet. She's unfailingly optimistic, keen on sleeping in, eating anything with chocolate in it, and above all, adores her husband, Nick. They're expecting their first baby, who at the moment is the size of a raisin (they call her the Sultana) and to whom Nick speaks nightly through an empty toilet paper roll held right up against Alice's belly. Alice and Nick plan to spend the rest of their lives working on the rundown, ramshackle house they just bought, with the goal of completing the list of projects (they've deemed it The Impossible Dream) sometime shortly before they die. So imagine Alice's surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and is whisked off to the hospital. Her first concern is her baby, and she's desperate to see Nick, who she knows will be worried about her. But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't worried. Turns out, Alice is in fact thirty-nine, has three children and the honeymoon is well and truly over for her and Nick. Her ramshackle home is picture perfect from top to bottom, and it's clear that she inhabits a body that doesn't indulge in chocolate often (or ever). The knock on the head has misplaced ten years of her life and Alice isn't sure she likes life ten years later. With a decade of memories gone for the time being, she has to piece together what has happened and who she has become. And in the end, it turns out forgetting might be the most memorable thing that's ever happened to her.